CANADA: British Comeback

British investment in Canada, which slowed to
a trickle after World War II. is rising again. Ontario's Minister of
Planning and Development William Warrender, home from a tour of
Britain, predicted last week that United Kingdom businessmen would pour
as much as $150 million into Canadian industries next year, more than
quadrupling their 1953 rate of investment.

After reaching a peak of $2.8 billion in 1929, total British holdings in
Canada declined slowly during the 1930s, then rapidly after the
outbreak of World War II as the British sold their overseas properties...